Peers demand disclosure of ID card costs

UK government says

"Identity fraud costs the economy at least £1.3bn a year and the evidence shows that the threat is rising.

I wonder whether most ID fraud isn't in the category of 'cardholder not present' which I can't see ID cards helping unless we are going to release bits of the info on the cards into the wild of the internet ... in which case back to square one ...
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